“Beast Mode” is back online. Through the season’s first twenty games, Matt Kemp has outshined many of the Dodger’s prized youngsters. He has produced a higher OPS than everybody not named Yasmani Grandal and has proven himself defensively thus far in the early going. Of course, it’s not even May, and the merciless MLB schedule will eventually take its toll on the veteran slugger. But the way Kemp has come in phenomenal shape after dropping 40 pounds has surprised everyone, even the Dodger skipper Dave Roberts:
“I had him in San Diego (in 2015). I saw him last year.